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Military service
Service number:
651105
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division:
1st
Birth:
January 13, 1895
Death:
August 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 7.
Additional information
Son of William J. and Minnie Proud, of Tara, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Melville Douglas Proud
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Photo of the Tara (Ontario) Platoon No 6.
Melville Douglas Proud is seated on the ground in the front row, 2nd from our far right. Group photo of the Tara (Ontario) Platoon No. 6, taken in England in 1917. -
Photo of Melville Douglas Proud
Close-up of Melville Douglas Proud from a group photo of the Tara (Ontario) Platoon No. 6. taken in England in 1917. -
Enlistment Cards
Records are property of the Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre. -
Roll of Honour
Pte. Melville Douglas Proud's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a bank clerk. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Inscription
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Photo of MELVILLE DOUGLAS PROUD
Parents of Private Melville Douglas Proud, August 1919, From left: father William J. Proud, mother Minnie A. (Hicks) Proud. Minnie A. Proud is holding a memorial bouquet of flowers presented to her by the women and community of Tara in remembrance and sacrifice for the loss of her son Melville Douglas Proud a year earlier. On the right is sister-in-law Mrs. Winifred Proud married to Sergeant Harvey Robert Proud (652171) wounded (right leg amputation) at Gentiles Wood, Amiens France August 24th 1918. -
Photo of MELVILLE DOUGLAS PROUD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
Digital gallery of
Private Melville Douglas Proud
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 488 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France
Boves is a village about 9 kilometres south-east of Amiens on the west side of the road from Amiens to Moreuil. BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY lies to the south of the village.
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